Becker v. Chapple

This is an action wherein the plaintiff seeks to hold the defendants, commissioners of Yellowstone county, individually liable for personal injuries sustained by her by reason of a defect in the highway.

Briefly stated, the plaintiff alleges that on August 4, 1922, a washout occurred in a public highway in Yellowstone county, leaving an excavation approximately thirty feet wide and eight feet deep; that the defendants had knowledge, individually and as a board of commissioners, of the washout and of the dangerous condition in which it left the highway, but failed and neglected to protect the…